"She Loves You" or "Satisfaction"? Pop’s greatest rivalry will be reignited at Glastonbury when The Beatles and The Rolling Stones go head-to-head once again.

Fans must choose between Sir Mick Jagger leading the Stones
through their long-awaited headline set on the festival’s Pyramid Stage, or the
Beatles (albeit in Bootleg form) trawling through their catalogue of classics.

Formed in 1980, The Bootleg Beatles are famed for delivering
a near-perfect facsimile of the Fab Four’s hits.

The tribute band will headline the Acoustic Tent on Saturday
night, taking the stage at 9.50pm, twenty minutes after their arch rivals begin
their set.

Festival-goers are advised to get an early spot for the
“Beatles”. The band pulled the largest crowd ever seen at the acoustic stage
when they performed at the venue in 2010.

The Bootleg Beatles promise a 30-song, hit-packed
chronological set, opening with "I Want To Hold Your Hand" and the Beatlemania
years, before building through the band’s “flower power” period to a finale of
"Hey Jude".

The Stones have slipped two “new” songs, "Doom and Gloom" and
One More Shot, into a crowd-pleasing set featuring "(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction"
and "Brown Sugar". Special guests are also promised during the Stones’s
performance.

Andre Barreau, “George” in the Bootleg Beatles since their
formation in 1980, believes the impersonators have the edge.

He said: “The Stones have original members which we don’t.
But if you pile up the best of the Beatles and the Stones then the Beatles song
pile is higher.”

“We’ll give it a bash. I don’t know what the Stones are
bringing but we’re going to have our own orchestra on stage.”

Despite playing the Acoustic Tent, the “Beatles” will take
steps to ensure they won’t be drowned out by Keith Richards’ riffs.

“We’re plugging in,” said Barreau. “We’ll really crank it
out. It’s Glastonbury so we can do the rockier Beatles songs like Helter
Skelter.”

The Stones are wary of allowing the BBC to broadcast all of
their two and a quarter-hour greatest hits set live, but Barreau, the last
“original” member of the Bootleg Beatles, said: “We won’t ban cameras. You can
film as much as you want.”

Lennon and McCartney’s song "I Wanna Be Your Man" gave the
Stones their first hit in 1963. But the London R&B group was cleverly
marketed as the “bad boy” counterparts to the Beatles’s be-suited teen idols as
a competitive rivalry accompanied both bands ascent to global fame.

There are alternatives for Glastonbury-goers who have little
interest in either set of 60s revivalists. Dance duo Chase & Status
headline the Other Stage on Saturday night, with Public Enemy and Fuck Buttons
also competing for attention.

The weather, forecast to be mixed over the Glastonbury
weekend, may prove the Bootleg Beatles’ trump card. “If it rains everyone will
want to get under the canvas with us,” Barreau said.